Scholarship table
That was a bad, bad game.
And Coppin State played the previous evening. That may well be what saved Georgetown.
I mean, Providence having a weak non-con followed by a strong Big East season is pretty much a yearly tradition:22 (NCAA 4 seed): struggled vs. #206 Fairfield, #243 New Hampshire, #87 Northwestern and lost by 18 to #72 Virginia21 (No postseason): struggled vs. #70 Davidson, #140 TCU, lost by 21 to #50 Indiana, and no big wins20 (Likely NCAAT or NIT bid): struggled vs. #139 Pepperdine, #192 Stony Brook, lost to #131 Northwestern, #141 Penn, #287 Long Beach State, #170 Charleston, #65 Rhode Island, #32 Florida (by 32) and no big wins19 (NIT 4 seed): struggled vs. #267 Siena, #239 Holy Cross, #211 Fairleigh Dickinson, #142 Rhode Island, #127 Boston College, lost to #66 Wichita State, #6 Michigan (by 19), and #236 Umass18 (NCAA 10 seed): Struggled vs #98 Washington, #83 Belmont, #145 Rider, #267 Brown, #223 Stony Brook, lost to #117 Minnesota (by 12), #52 Rhode Island, #207 UMass, and no big wins17 (NCAA 11 seed): Struggled vs #101 Memphis, #158 Umass, lost to #73 Ohio State and #173 Boston College16 (NCAA 9 seed): Struggled vs #125 Illinois, #202 NJIT, #72 Evansville, #82 Rhode Island, #346 Brant, and #223 Rider15 (NCAA 6 seed): Struggled vs #131 Albany, #77 Yale, lost to #110 Boston College, and #268 Brown14 (NCAA 11 seed): Struggled vs #142 Boston College, #162 Brown, #109 Vanderbilt, #105 Lasalle, #271 Fairfield, #115 Rhode Island, #153 Rhode Island, and no big winsI also don't believe that Providence will be as good as some have projected them to be, but I don't think struggling against #174 Rider in their opener is enough evidence to declare it so.
The thing about providence for me is, outside of Bryce Hopkins, they really don't have a starter who would sniff MU's starting lineup
I see the kool-aid was strong this morning!
In all sincerity are you a big Croswell or Bynum fan?
Georgetown really only went 6 deep in a 45 minute game against a high calorie cupcake. 4 players went 42 minutes or more. Wahab fouled out in 15 minutes and Bristol Jr played 29 minutes off the bench (while also fouling out). 3 other players combined for 10 minutes, 0 points, 2 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 1 block, 1 turnover, 0 FGAs, 0 FTAs. Feels like having only 6 games that you can trust to play more than 4 minutes in an OT game against Coppin State is not a recipe for success. But they did snap that 21 game losing streak!
I would take Croswell in a second, I don't know much about many of their newcomers. But also the idea that none of the other players being able to sniff Maquette's starting lineup is surely hyperbole. Hell, most of their team will sniff Marquette's starters at least two times this year
How does the weak roster this year factor into those stats ?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
This isn't the first year that some fans have declared that Providence's roster is weak and that an early non-conference struggle was a sign that they were going to be bad. Honestly, it's a yearly tradition at this point. Most years those fans are wrong.I'm not even saying your assessment is wrong. I don't think Providence has a good roster this year either and think that they will be on the wrong side of the bubble. But Cooley has enough of a track record that I'm not going to label their season as doomed this early in the year.
Not true. Before last year. So from 2018-2021. Cooley under performed in 4 of the previous 4 season per Ken Pom. He dropped at least 10 spots each year and averaged a 25.5 drop in rankings. Additionally Cooley under preformed in 3 of the previous 4 seasons relative to his big east preseason rankings. The only season he didn't underperform his big east preseason ranking, he tied it.He is a great coach. Providence shouldn't be as good as they are. But he doesn't overperform every year.
Big East should be able to pick up 2 more wins tonight CMU at MUNorth Dakota at Creighton
50/50
Radford all but had it won. Notre Dame got away with a foul, then made a layup with 9 seconds left to take the lead and escape.